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There are 5 million children who could be potentially orphaned by ICE deportations

Cristina in her show on Univision tonite featured the stories of several children who have been left orphaned in the United States due to the deportation of their parents. On Cristina's website she reports, based on ICE estimates, that 5 million children, United States citizens by birth, live with their illegal alien parents.

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There are 5 million children who could be potentially orphaned by ICE deportations

The Wall Street economic death squad

Recent Headlines: $140 billion! Record Payday for Wall Street – Goldman Sachs 2009 Bonuses Could Buy Insurance for 1.7 Million Families Paraphrasing a very insightful quote: ‘The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Goldman Sachs, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of a fortune of such a magnitude entails is left out of the mainstream media, and it is not always possible to make the people in general see this.’ The American middle class, once the only effective counter weight to Wall Street greed, has been decimated. Over 25 million people, in what was the US middle class, are now in full-blown crisis mode and urgently need to increase their income. Over 25 million people in crisis mode! Every seven seconds, another American family is kicked out of their home

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The New York Times to eliminate 100 newsroom jobs

The New York Times reports today that the paper will cut 8 percent of its newsroom staff, or around 100 people by the end of 2009. added by: knews121 9 comments

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US scientist charged with attempted spying for Israel

WASHINGTON — The US authorities arrested Monday a leading American scientist who had worked for the Pentagon and NASA and charged him with attempted spying for Israel. Stewart Nozette, 52, was apprehended after a sting operation involving an undercover FBI agent, the Department of Justice said, adding that there was no wrongdoing by Israel.

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This is your brain on the Internet. Any questions?

Your grandma might think that the Internet is rotting your brain, but it's possible if she did a little face-time with Google that she could stay sharper in the noggin herself. In a new study, Internet novices who were instructed to search the web showed increased activity in areas of the brain associated with making decisions and memory in just two weeks, according to a poster presented today at the annual Society for Neuroscience conference. The work comes from a UCLA research team including Gary Small, a professor of psychiatry, and builds off of a previous study we covered in the June issue of Popular Science

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» Girl denied yearbook photo in tuxedo.

“..crooked letter, crooked letter, I” '(Ceara Sturgis) is battling officials at Wesson Attendance Center in the Copiah County (Miss.) School District. (Her mother,Veronica) Rodriguez said she received a letter from the school in August stating that only boys could wear tuxedos and have since refused to include the photo in the school yearbook.' To be human enables us to have rights. Oh, Mississippi.

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Prison paradise: In Norwegian open prisons murders & rapists lead the good life

In summer, inmates can improve their backhand on the tennis court, ride a horse in the forest and hit the beach for a swim. In winter, they can go cross-country skiing or participate in the prison's ski-jumping competition. Welcome to Norway's “open prisons”, where murders & rapists live the good life

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Found far away: 32 new planets

Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using telescopes by the European Southern Observatory telescopes didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400.

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Obama rips health insurance lobby as ‘deceptive,’ ‘dishonest,’ ‘bogus.’

Earlier this week, the health insurance lobby AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) issued a false and dishonest report claiming that the Baucus health care bill would increase health care costs. Even the firm hired to do the analysis — PriceWaterhouseCoopers — backpedaled from the report’s conclusions. The insurance lobby’s strategy backfired as it appeared to alienate Sen

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Former Bush Official Sentenced To Prison For His Role In Abramoff Scandal

Former General Services Administration (GSA) Chief of Staff David H. Safavian was sentenced Friday to one year in prison on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the investigation into the activities of former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

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